At midafternoon Sunday, a green and yellow apartment building on East Ninth Avenue, just west of Gambell Street, was blocked off with yellow crime tape. The APD sergeant on the scene declined to comment.

"We're still gathering information and talking to witnesses," said MJ Thim, an APD spokesman. "This is not random, this is an isolated incident. There is no threat to the general public."

As of Sunday evening, the victim had not yet been identified.

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Julia O'Malley is a veteran Alaska journalist who is currently a writer and editor at the ADN. She was columnist and reporter at the ADN for many years and was Atwood Chair of Journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She received a 2018 James Beard Foundation food writing award.